open forms from its name string

[fradique]

It was hard to figure out this, i searched in the internet but i didnt find a solution, i found a solution if you have something better or any comments plese tell me.

string formName="frmTest";
Type tForm = Type.GetType(Application.CompanyName + "." + formName);
if (tForm != null)
                {
                    Form f = (Form)Activator.CreateInstance(tForm);
                            f.Show();
}

[codesid]

As far as I know, this is pretty much it.

Only one thing from System.Activato r that you may should know... when using it to instantiate classes which require constructors with parameters, you may use one of the other overloads of the same method that you have, but only for public classes. I could not get it to work with internal classes. If you have a situation like that, you may consider encapsulating the class, or turning it public, if does not affect the rest of your project/solution.

Cheers.